Edzer Pebesma
Professor at University of Münster
Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolEdzer Pebesma is a Professor and director of the Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of Münster with over 21 years of experience in spatial statistics, spatio-temporal modelling, and GIS-focused software development. He combines deep academic research and teaching with hands-on open-source engineering, notably contributing to the widely used r-spatial sf package to improve geometry handling and coordinate system support in R. His work bridges geosciences and software: from statistical analysis of groundwater monitoring during his PhD to shaping modern spatial analysis tools that many researchers rely on today. Based in Dortmund, he is known for pragmatic tool-building in R that makes advanced geostatistical methods accessible to practitioners.
21 years of coding experience
Doctoraal, Fysische Geografie, Doctoraal, Fysische Geografie at Utrecht UniversityPhD, Geosciences, PhD, Geosciences at University of UtrechtAtheneum b, Atheneum b at Drachtster Lyceum
German, French, English, Dutch, western frisian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
gdal10
rs10
wkb10
spatial-data10
ref10
geometric-algorithms10
geos10
data-handling10
cprogramming-language10
geom10
r9
linear-algebra8
build-system7
spatial6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
r-spatial/sf
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
Simple Features for R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 19 reviews, 4813 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Edzer's primary contribution appears to be centered around the maintenance and improvement of the spatial features library, specifically focusing on operations involving point and line geometries. Their commits focused on fixing issues such as geometry comparisons, and also on expanding the capabilities for handling and processing different coordinate reference systems. The user implemented new functionality to handle the data types of binary large objects in the database.
r-packagespatialgeosrstatsgdal
edzer/sdswr
Apr 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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